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A bear walked into a Subway outlet last fall. It happened in Kitimat—you can watch the video on YouTube. A black bear opened the door, jumped over the counter and helped itself to sandwich fixings. The young woman working that day hid in the bathroom and is fine, but the bear has since been shot. That's what happens when bears eat sandwiches instead of salmon.

This week at the 2008 Coastal Zone Canada Conference in Vancouver nearly 300 of the world's leading ocean scientists, managers and activists are meeting to discuss how to better manage Canadian and international coastal and ocean ecosystems. The setting could not be more appropriate, as British Columbia's coastal waters are not only home to some of the richest marine ecosystems left on Earth, but they are also in immediate need of better management.

2007 may go down in history as an entire year of “inconvenient truth.” A series of gloomy reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Al Gore’s rise to fame and premier Gordon Campbell’s keen interest in reducing greenhouse gas emissions have brought home the fact climate change is already here and we have little time to meet the challenge.